Lean Thinking for Manufacturing and Automation

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Lean Thinking for Manufacturing and Automation

Lean manufacturing thinking can be applied to automation. This introduction covers basic lean manufacturing terms and explains the rest of the video series: How the control loop serves as a starting...

Traditional hard-wiring adds complexity and waste. Lean thinking applied to automation uses networking to reduce wiring. Lean advantages include less wasted movement in building the control panel and...

Lean Automation: IEC 61131 Standard Programming

Traditionally, the value of control programming varied with a programmer’s skill. IEC 61131-3 standard control programming languages provide structure and reduce waste. Rules for each allow greater...

Lean Automation: CoDeSys demo

Standards promote lean. Some software can add complexity by limiting interchangeability, make it more challenging to work across controllers, and file storage format differences can create...

Key points: Lean Thinking for Manufacturing and Automation

This series of videos has covered basic lean manufacturing terms, showed how lean manufacturing can be applied to automation, discusses the control loop as a starting point for lean automation...